The units automatically measure electricity usage.
Customers will be able to go online and check their hour-by-hour power consumption.
Installation of the meters will start on a pilot basis late next year, with a full rollout beginning in 2019.
All of the meters should be installed by the end of 2020.
NSP spokesperson Tiffany Chase says application has been made to the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board.
“Subject to their approval, we would be looking at establishing the network that will provide the backbone for the system to allow the communication between the smart metre and Nova Scotia Power.”
Chase says the smart meters will not cost customers any money.
It will also mean an end to meter readers.
Nova Scotia Power expects to save $38 million over the next 20 years because customers’ meters will no longer have to be manually read.
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https://www.nspower.ca/en/home/for-my-home/smart-meters.aspx
